Wilhelm Seiger

Wilhelm Seiger (born November 10, 1897 in Krebshagen , † May 19, 1966 in Hagenburg ) was a German teacher and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Wilhelm Seiger was born the son of a miner. He attended the teachers' seminar in Bückeburg from 1915 , but had to interrupt it due to the First World War , in which he had participated as a soldier since July 1916. After his discharge from army service in January 1919, he continued the teachers' seminar, which he completed that same year. He then worked as a primary school teacher in Wendthagen, and from 1922 in the same function in Kirchhorsten .

Seiger, who had joined the SPD, was a part-time member of the state government of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe from November 1927 to June 1931 . In the state elections in 1928 he was elected to the Schaumburg-Lippe state parliament. However, he had to resign from his state parliament mandate as he was a member of the state government at that time. Wilhelm Pöhler took over .

After the National Socialists came to power , Seiger was transferred to Großenheidorn as an elementary school teacher in 1933 . From 1941 until his retirement in 1962, he worked as a primary school teacher in Hagenburg, where he also served as headmaster and vice-principal. After 1945 he was active in local politics in Hagenburg.

Wilhelm Seiger had been married to a teacher since 1923.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 337.

Web links

• Biography of Wilhelm Seiger . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)